Procycling

FALL AND DECLINE

Nobody has ever won a fourth Tour de France and not gone on to win a fifth, and Chris Froome, currently stuck on four wins, has no intention of becoming the first person to do so.

However, nobody has come back from the kind of injuries Chris Froome suffered in his terrible training crash in June 2019 at the Criterium du Dauphiné and gone on to win the Tour

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